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The History of God
FIELD No. F711
Visual depiction of Baal Hadad

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Vol. II · Polytheism · sky

Baal Hadad

Canaanite storm god

standing on a mountain wielding a thunderbolt club, lightning bolts as a spear, clouds of rain massing at his command

Organization
Mixed Bronze-Age pantheons (Vedic + Mesopotamian)
Time period
c. 2000 BCE – 500 BCE
Location
Eurasia (India + Mesopotamia)
Archetype
sky

Source attribution

This visual depiction is one of 1,947 in the archive — a creative historical rendering of how Vedic/Sumerian/Mesopotamian has expressed the divine. The depiction is interpretive, not iconographic.

Cross-references — same archetype or region

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Alaunus

Mixed Pantheons (set 3)

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Ehecatl

Vedic/Sumerian/Mesopotamian

 Visual depiction of Indra

Indra

Vedic/Sumerian/Mesopotamian

 Visual depiction of Mitra

Mitra

Mixed Pantheons (set 4)

 Visual depiction of Ptah

Ptah

Vedic/Sumerian/Mesopotamian

 Visual depiction of Tonatiuh

Tonatiuh

Vedic/Sumerian/Mesopotamian